Children’s screen time has crept up relentlessly over the past ten years. It’s time for parents to act, says one expert. Not just from a health and wellbeing angle, but from a productive angle by looking at how you can keep your family secure when they are online so they are as safe as possible. […]
Take tablets from schools, says tsar
THE technology revolution in schools has been thrown into doubt by the government’s new school behaviour tsar, who believes children should be kept away from iPads for as long as possible.
Smartphones and selfie culture: what are you teaching your child?
Do your children have to vie with your smartphone for your attention in the evenings? Do you feel twitchy in the mornings if you haven’t checked your messages? Having pooh-poohed them a couple of years ago, have you embraced the selfie (ironically, of course)? Then perhaps it’s not your children’s use of technology that you […]
Antisocial media: why smartphones make us dumb parents
Picking up her iPhone, Sherry Turkle stuffs it into her handbag. “I’m putting my phone away,” she declares, zipping it into a pocket with a theatrical flourish. “The very presence of a phone on the table is a distraction. Even silent phones inhibit conversations.”